About half the time on a laptop/desktop; almost all the time on mobile.
Ask YC: Do any of you find yourself reading comments before the actual link?
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Re: Ask YC: Do any of you find yourself reading comments before the actual link?
#22The RSS feed directs me directly to the link.
It would be nice if this were an option. I often end up making two passes at a story, reading it first via the RSS feed and then finding it again on the home page to read the commentary.
Re: Ask YC: Do any of you find yourself reading comments before the actual link?
#23As HN has grown, stuff on the homepage tends to change too frequently for me any more. If there isn't a comment modded up to 10, I'll rarely click the link.
Re: Ask YC: Do any of you find yourself reading comments before the actual link?
#24all the time. i find hacker news to still be the only community that im truly vested in, with no trolling, and overall good content.
a lot of the time i might have seen the article, but want to read the comments, so ill come here. If i haven't read the article, ill read the comments first if i want some backstory/alternate framing of the story.
Re: Ask YC: Do any of you find yourself reading comments before the actual link?
#25Yep mostly.
1. comments if more than 4-5 would most always reflect the thoughts and opinions that I myself would be going through if I do read the article.
2. Checking out comments is quicker (in terms of load time and reading time) and less clutter on the flow as you have remained on a familiar website with only selectively moving out to a new website or web page.
Re: Ask YC: Do any of you find yourself reading comments before the actual link?
#26The RSS feed directs me directly to the link.
The RSS feed also has links to the comments.
Re: Ask YC: Do any of you find yourself reading comments before the actual link?
#27Yes. Actually, this is one reason I like the socialite firefox plugin for reddit. Letting me access the comments directly from the link is exactly what I need. Going back to the main page to find the comments link after I've read the link is a pain in the ass.
Maybe I could hack this together for HN....
Re: Ask YC: Do any of you find yourself reading comments before the actual link?
#28Yes, frequently. I kinda wish there was an "open in frames" option, putting both the comments and the page in one tab. I go to reddit/hn/etc and open many links in new tabs, then the "next" page in a tab. Then I just work through till I get to the end and process the next page.
I thought something similar when reading this thread and thought it would make a nice bookmarklet.
http://code.cohitre.com/snippets/hackernews.html
It opens the comments and original article in side by side iframes for easy previewing.
Re: Ask YC: Do any of you find yourself reading comments before the actual link?
#29Depends on the link. Often the title is something like "Five reasons Ruby on Rails is dead" that just indicates what area the discussion is going to be in. Then I'm often interested to see the discussion, but not so interested to see the blog post itself.
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